The beautiful new library, now North
Thirteenth's visual shortstop, will make 1871-1942 students
brothers to the pioneer who slept, ate, cooked, played and
quarreled in one room. The new edifice has a student lounge,
auditorium, social studies reading room, general and
humanities reading room and browsing room. Those who did
their lounging, their browsing, their studying of the
humanities and their date making all in one big room under
an uncompromising row of green shaded lights will feel
outmoded indeed.

But casting envy aside, this generous
gift, one of several from the late Don Love, is a welcome
addition to the campus and the city. True, it turns its back
on the city as it communes perpetually with its sisters of
The Quadrangle--Teachers' college, social sciences and
Andrews hall--but it is a slender ribbed, sightly and
aristocratic back. Earlier buildings were sardine-packed on
a small campus. Later edifices, given space on the avenue,
took on social graces. To the north of the quadrangle,
Memorial mall forms the center of another group of
aristocrats-- Morrill hall, Bessey hall, Memorial stadium
and the Coliseum.

The new library is not yet completed.
We had wondered if, when the day of occupancy came, the
former library would go the way of the old cannon which once
stood guard beside it. This cannon, brought to the campus
from the fortress of Havana at the end if the
Spanish-American war, was dedicated with ceremony as a
memorial to Nebraska students who had fought for Cuban
freedom. The cannon had stood in Seville in the time of
Charles III of Spain.

A few weeks ago the cannon was
ignominiously trucked off for scrap, without ceremony or
apology. But the library is to remain and will now home the
university's extension department.

No. 22--Grant Memorial Hall

That rugged old
warrior, Grant Memorial Hall (campus, 12th and S) now
resounds to commands no more stirring than a set-up singsong
to which coeds stretch muscles and limber joints in
accordance with university physical education requirements.
It was built, however, for sterner purposes. Once the
shuffle and click of guns could be heard within its
soldierly exterior as Lt. John Pershing sang out brisk
orders to his cadets. The hall was erected in honor of
Nebraska's Civil war veterans in 1887, when those veterans
were comparatively young men. Pershing was commandant from
1891 to 1895. The military department is now housed in
Nebraska hall, a block to the north.

During the university's middle years
convocations were held in Grant Memorial. The pipe organ in
the west half of the second story came from the Mississippi
exposition held in Omaha in 1898. It was a gift from alumni
who purchased it for $2,500. For years Carrie Belle Raymond,
for whom one of the girls' residence halls is named, played
the organ for convocation, Thousands of graduates recall her
always smiling face as she sat high above them, fingers
hovering over the organ keys.

In Grant Memorial also are housed the
U. of N. radio studio and the department of
architecture.